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Any update on the remaining SWT livery units please? Only 8 left now.

Are the 701s more energy efficient than existing stock? Not only their traction package,but their air-con and other passenger environment electrical draws? Wondering if the old 455s are cheaper to run,hence SWR are happy to keep using them? Just wondering if the economic case for the 701s has...

Bit like the merry-go-round of football managers. This opens the door,pardon the pun,for OOLR ?

Hmmm...leasing/storage costs on new stock doing nothing,and old stock which should have been gone several years ago. Add in the cost of keeping two lots of parts on the shelf. Then we have the 458 refurb 'situation'. Someone is paying...

Logistics may play a part too. All the stored ones need to be dragged back...again...then what they displace needs to go to disposal locations. Those old 47s will be clocking up the miles! One wonders if the stored ones will need another shakedown prior to service?

31 days to get one in service...tick,tock,tick,tock...

What was the second unit please?

Dear Santa...all I want for Christmas is a 701 in service.I didn't get this last year so could you please try harder ?

Who knows ? I wonder when this saga will end and the trains actually carry passengers. This does very much appear to be an operator project and look what has happened elsewhere.OK,services are still running,but using the stock the 701s were meant to replace.It all comes down to the cab size ,and...

I wonder when the phase 'Operator of Last Resort' will start to appear ? Not only the operator is at fault,but the train builders and in some part the operators employees. We are rapidly approaching the point when all of the 701s have been constructed,and still the existing rolling stock is...

If Derby closes,who will supply any spares or do any warranty work ? Remember all the returns of tube stock a while back. Surprised this saga has not attracted national media by now,or been given a full blast in Modern Railways for example. By the way,have the unions accepted the design yet ?

701517 and 701519 out on test yesterday. 39 days till year end...

A gap in the market on this busy route for an open access operator to fill the gaps?

Any update on repaints please? I make it 6 x 450 and 4 x 444 left in old livery.

55 days from today to get one in passenger service...tick tock,tick,tock....

I knew a driver who had apparently seen a woman in the cab with him. One for 'Uncanny' ?

I'd love to see a flow chart of these rolling stock usage possibilties...with all the costings of course.

Has the disposal been completed this week please?

Plus the six 444s?

I noted 701009/012/020/021/035/055.701505/07/08.